Often, our customers would like to access Statit
e-QC reports without actually having to log
in to the application. And those creating reports
could use some help in producing a consistent
structure to their reports. This article covers
some features of Statit e-QC that may be very
helpful to you. The first two features involve
deployment of your reports, while the third
makes it easy for the report writers to create
content that is consistent.
Many of our customers want to make the Statit
e-QC dynamic reports more accessible to users.
Often, customers have intranet sites or corporate
portals which their employees use to access
a wealth of information. In cases like this,
it is inconvenient for many users to remember
that some of that information is in Statit e-QC
or that they need to log in to Statit e-QC to
access certain quality reporting or information.
With Statit e-QC, these dynamic reports can
be made available to the intranet user. There
are two report types that users can utilize
to provide this capability.
RunMacroDirect
The first of these is what we refer to as the
RunMacroDirect option. Imagine clicking
on a link on your intranet and bringing up a
report where you can choose, as an example,
the product line, a product and a date range
to create a report on yield. The RunMacroDirect
option will allow this flexibility. The example
below illustrates how this may look just by
clicking on a link within your corporate portal.
At this point, the user can use the control
frame to choose the options they are interested
in, click Display and the resulting report
will be displayed in the results frame.
Because this report is using the control frame
to determine what will be displayed, a Statit
e-QC license is consumed until the user exits.
ExecNowDirect
The other report option is ExecNowDirect.
This runs a Statit e-QC macro and produces the
output. Imagine clicking on a link on your intranet
and getting a page that shows the current p
chart for a particular product on a particular
line.
In this case, there is no control frame, simply
the report output. The example below illustrates
how this would be used on a page on your intranet.
Just clicking on a link on your intranet page
will produce:
This report only consumes a license long enough
to produce the report.
These two methods allow you to easily open
up access to Statit e-QC reports across the
organization. You have always been able to link
to Scheduled Reports from your intranet. This
takes that access to the next step. Many people
in your organization may not wish to log in
to Statit e-QC to get the report because the
intranet supplies most of the information they
look at regularly. With these two Statit options,
you may choose which reports to provide to your
user community. Reports and other output that
may not be appropriate for inclusion on the
intranet can still be accessed through the Statit
e-QC application.
HTMLTemplates
One of the challenges to the Statit e-QC report
writers is to "corral" the output.
The positioning of output often changes depending
on the resolution of the client machine or the
size of the browser window. The report writer
can control it by using the beginhtml/endhtml
option in the report to build tables whose cells
will contain the various pieces of the output.
Please take a look at the demonstration of
HTML Templates on our Statit
e-QC live demo. In the New Features
folder, you will find the HTML Template Doc
Example. The report itself produces several
charts and various statistical output each time
Display is clicked. Not all of that output
is displayed when the user clicks Display.
Which output is displayed and the position of
that output is determined by the Template you
choose in the Template dropdown.
Each template is simply an HTML file that typically
uses common commands to locate the position
of the output. Within these commands is what
are referred to as Statit e-QC tags. These tags
simply allow any value available in Statit to
be displayed in these templates. However, the
real power of HTMLTemplates is to assign a tag
to graphics and statistical output.
Click
here to download the sample template files,
an export of the demo macro, as well as the
text file of the code from our website.
The HTMLTemplate feature gives the report writer
significant power to tune the user output. Fox
example, to produce output for a monitor on
the production floor, an HTML template could
be very helpful. Another possibility is to use
different templates for different sites. You
might have a template built for the United States
and another for Japan. As with many of the features
of Statit e-QC, we expect that our customers
will discover more ingenious ways to use HTMLTemplates.
Please check out our demo at http://live.statit.com.
You may find something there that interests
you and that we can help you to implement.
If you would like additional information, please
call our Sales staff at (541) 752-4500 or send
email to
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